Her Majesty in ten quotes

25th November 1982. The Queen chats with children in the crowd waiting to greet her in a Wakefield pedestrain precinct.

Published:15:56Updated:16:58Wednesday 09 September 2015

As the Queen becomes the country’s longest reigning monarch today, we look back at her Her Majesty in quotes.

Can you guess who said them?

QUOTES

1. “[Princess Elizabeth] is a character. She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant.”

2. “At the end the service got rather boring as it was all prayers.”

3. “I declare... that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service.”

4. “The Queen carries a magnet when having clothes fitted… to comb the room for any stray pins and needles so the dogs don’t hurt their paws.”

5. “The Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.”

6. “My Lord Mayor, when I was 21, I pledged my life to the service of our people and I asked for God’s help to make good that vow. Although that vow was made in my salad days, when I was green in judgement, I do not regret nor retract one word of it.”

7. “There are lessons to be drawn from her life and from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death.”

8. “With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things we would wish had been done differently, or not at all.”